Marylanders won seven medals, including four golds, at the Special Olympics World Games, which end Sunday in Los Angeles. Ben Stevick of Laurel triumphed in two equestrian events, English Equitation and Dressage; Eddie Murphy of Grasonville won gold in cycling (500 meters); and Alicia Gogue, a...

Pushing forward to save the Laurel MARC train station, Laurel city and state officials hit a speed bump after City Council President Ed Ricks said Laurel Park Station developers "never followed through" with signing a memorandum of understanding that the station would not move.

The devil is in the details, goes the old saw, and there's nothing more bedeviling to the state of Maryland with details at present than the stormwater management fee, also called by some "the rain tax." We are now in the third year of acrimony and confusion over this measure, which the General...